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Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallaces writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cuttingedge, fielddefining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the worlds most influential authors.In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallaces fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topicsincluding Wallaces relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination, and the social life of his fiction and nonfictioncontributors plumb sources as diverse as Amazon.com reader recommendations, professional book reviews, the 2009 Infinite Summer project, and the David Foster Wallace archive at the University of Texass Harry Ransom Center.The creative writersincluding Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Rick Moody, Dave Eggers, and David Lipsky, and Wallaces Little, Brown editor, Michael Pietschreflect on the person behind the volumes of fiction and nonfiction created during the authors tooshort life.All of the essays, critical and creative alike, are written in an accessible style that does not presume any background in Wallace criticism. Whether the reader is an expert in all things David Foster Wallace, a casual fan of his fiction and nonfiction, or completely new to Wallace, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace will reveal the power and innovation that defined his contribution to literary life and to selfunderstanding. This illuminating volume is destined to shape our understanding of Wallace, his writing, and his place in history.
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